iPhone/iPad VoiceOver: On and Off

Hello, my name is Douglas Walker. Today we're gonna take a look at a really great way for quickly turning on and off VoiceOver. Now for those that might not know, VoiceOver's Apple screen reading software, and a screen reader gives a person with a visual impairment the ability to totally use their device, and it does this by speaking the items or information that's on our screen, and, I tell you, that is pretty fantastic. Now, the fastest way to turn on and off VoiceOver is by using Siri. So how about we jump right in and check it all out?

Now, we're using our iPhone in today's workshop. However, all of this will work pretty much the same whether we're using our iPhone or our iPad. All right, all we have to do to start Siri is to just say, "Hey, Siri," and then we'll say, "Turn on VoiceOver." Siri will announce: Okay, VoiceOver's now on. And, I tell you, it really works just that fast. So how about we give it a try?

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